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If you are migrating notebooks at work, from friends or family you will always hit same problem after the new one is ready for use. Most documents and user settings can be migrated in some kind (ntbackup,robocopy and the Windows transfer wizards) , but when migrating the wireless network setting you may need additional script to perform that. Recently I have been asked to reinstall couple of tools and migrate import user documents including the wireless network. I received both notebooks without the wireless access point and after all important things were moved to the new notebook I started running the netsh command to export the wireless settings/networks into a text file.

See my howto I performed to get this done on my own Windows VISTA notebook.

• Run CMD.exe to get into the command prompt and run “netsh wlan show profiles”

• I am interested in exporting the “NetworknetForFree” WLAN SSID into a text file which I can import on another notebook.
• I am still in the command prompt and than I execute “netsh wlan export profile name=”NetworknetForFree” folder=C:\” to export NetworknetForFree to C:\ drive.

• NetworknetForFree wireless network profile has now been exported to a file named “C:\Wireless Network Connection-NetworknetForFree.xml” and I can copy this file to a usb drive. If you want to export all your wireless profiles just run “netsh wlan export profile folder=C:\“
• The netsh tool generates a XML based file with all the settings for the wireless profile.

• Start a CMD.exe command prompt on the new notebook and import the XML file located on the usb drive. You can copy the XML file first from the usb dirve to C:\ and than import the file. Type and execute “netsh wlan add profile filename=”c:\Wireless Network Connection-NetworknetForFree.xml” user=all“

The wireless SSID “NetworknetForFree” network has been migrated without knowing the exact settings like SSID, authentication type and the password. I was also trying to perform these steps with a Windows XP SP2 client but too bad that this feature is only for Windows Vista and not XP.

KB949758 allows you to install the remote management console of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC0 role. Download the update here for x86 or x64 if you are running Windows Vista SP1. I already hit couple of times issues when managing my virtual machines remotely with RDP console session.

I am not able to control mouse session when using rdp console session Hyper-V Manager Virtual Machine Connections and only keyboard is working. “Mouse not captured in Remote Desktop Session”.

The update for my x86 machine only requires 1.52MB of space and 5 minutes of installing.

After the update has been installed go to Administrative Tools and start the Hyper-V Manager mmc console for your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RC0 host servers.

Sandboxie released newest version of their isolated abstraction product for your applications. Trust no program you download and install from Internet. Using Sandboxie it can help you investigating the code you are installing on your computer.

Under the supervision of Sandboxie, an application operates normally and at full speed, but can’t effect permanent changes to your computer. Instead, the changes are effected only in the sandbox.

Version 3.24 :

Improved compatibility with Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Support for blocking Internet access to more than one sandboxed program at a time.
Support for the new bookmarks system introduced in Firefox 3.
Removed domain restrictions: Sandboxie can again be used in a domain network without additional license keys.
Some performance improvements and security enhancements.
Translation to Korean, contributed by doa.
Resolved conflicts with third-party software: AVG 8, Ad Muncher, Novell NetIdentity, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008.